Unauthorized Sports Streaming Sites Closed After Crackdown – Sportico

A segment of the online sports fan community mourned Monday as two popular websites for pirating illegal streams of live sporting events displayed a message&mdash;ostensibly from their anonymous owner&mdash;that they would be &ldquo;taking a break from live <a  href="https://www.sportico.com/t/streaming/"  id="auto-tag_streaming_1"  data-tag="streaming"  >streaming</a>.&rdquo;<br>    Visitors to sites called Methstreams and Crackstreams were instead encouraged to join an existing Discord community for further updates. In a sign of the sites&rsquo; following, more than 80,000 accounts were part of the Discord group&mdash;which has been around at least since 2022&mdash;as of Monday afternoon.<br>    Methstreams previously earned attention in November, when ESPN&rsquo;s Adam Schefter reposted a clip of <a  href="https://www.sportico.com/t/nfl/"  id="auto-tag_nfl_1"  data-tag="nfl"  >NFL</a> action that had originated on the site (he&rsquo;d grabbed the video from another poster, rather than from the now-defunct service).   <div class="admz" id="adm-inline-article-ad-1">                     <div class="adma boomerang" data-device="Desktop" data-width="300">                  <div style="min-width:300px;min-height:275px;"     class="pmc-adm-boomerang-pub-div ad-text"   data-priority="10" >    <div id="gpt-sprt-dsk-tab-midarticle-uid0"      class="adw-300 adh-250" data-is-adhesion-ad="">         <script type="application/javascript">

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